Adam Page and Duck Warner at the Gem Theater
Duck Warner, wearing a long-tailed tuxedo, closes his eyes as he prepares to blow into a trumpet pointed at a microphone during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. Adam Page is visible behind...
Adam Page at the Gem Theater
Adam Page, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, looks down at the neck of a guitar during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Alberta Adams and Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards
Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C...
Ann Rabson at the Grand Emporium
Ann Rabson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes, opens her mouth wide and sings into a microphone as she plays an acoustic guitar. The back of a keyboard is...
Anson Funderburgh at the Grand Emporium
Anson Funderburgh, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks over his right shoulder as he plays a X-shape guitar.
Anthony Gomes at the Grand Emporium
Anthony Gomes, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar.
BB King at KC Spirit Festival
B.B. King from below, smiles as he plays an electric guitar. One of the national acts at the KC Spirit Festival.
Bernard Allison at the Grand Emporium
Bernard Allison, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a cowboy hat, grins to his left as he plays an electric guitar.
Bernard Allison at the W.C. Handy Awards
Bernard Allison, wearing a cowboy hat with a wide hat band, smiles at the photographer as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. An unidentified white male...
Betty Crow, Sonny Kenner, and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
Betty Crow is speaking to someone that is not visible to the right of the photograph. She stands behind Sonny Kenner who is bent slightly and smiling straight ahead. He is leaning over a seated Lionel...
Big Jack Johnson at the Grand Emporium
Big Jack Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grimaces while he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar. He's wearing a fedora hat.
Bilbo Walker at the Grand Emporium
Robert "Bilbo" Walker, one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
Bill Carter at the Club Mardi Gras
Bill Carter, wearing a straw hat, looks out as he plays a guitar at the Club Mardi Gras, 19th & Vine, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bill Carter at the Gem Theater
Bill Carter, wearing a fedora and a light-colored tux with dark lapels and sides stripes, faces forward with his eyes shifted to the right, as he plays his guitar behind a microphone during the Living...
Bill Perry at the Grand Emporium
Bill Perry, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a straw hat and overalls, closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar.
Bnois King at the Grand Emporium
BNois King, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a flat cap, looks down as he plays a guitar.
Bo Diddley at Roadhouse Ruby's South
Bo Diddley, one of the national acts to perform at Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, looks up to his left as he realigns a capo on the neck of his square guitar.
Bob Margolin and Charlie Musselwhite at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Bob Margolin sits and sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, while he plays a microphoned slide dobro guitar. Charlie Musselwhite is seated to Bob's left playing the harmonica during the Kansas...
Bob Margolin at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Bob Margolin at the W.C. Handy Awards
Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, stands behind a microphone and grins as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium
Bobby Carson looks serious as he holds an electric guitar high on his chest and watches the fingers of his left hand on the neck of the guitar as he plays at the Grand Emporium.
Brody Buster and Rico McFarland at the Grand Emporium
Brody Buster and Rico McFarland, members of the James Cotton Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sit together as they perform. Brody, wearing a baseball cap backwards...
Buddy Guy at Roadhouse Ruby's South
Buddy Guy grins to his left as he plays a polka dot guitar. One of the national acts to play at Roadhouse Ruby's South, Olathe, KS.
Bugs Henderson at the Grand Emporium
Bugs Henderson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes and lifts his chin with his mouth slightly open as he plays an electric guitar.
Charlie Musselwhite at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Charlie Musselwhite smiles down to his right as he sits behind a microphone playing a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.